Does anyone have access to some hefty benchmarkssuites like SPEC's, or regression testslike the POSIX compliance test?It might be a good idea to run 2.2.0-pre-xthrough these to look for suprisesbefore going final with it.

The SPEC benchmarks can be purchased athttp://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgorderfor $700 or so. The hard part isactually having the patience to run them.(I suspect if Linux or Alan asked nicely, they'ddonate a benchmark or two. Or we could takeup a collection. Or Alan's boss could pay.)Three of the SPEC tests look interesting:

The point of running these benchmarks is not reallyto say we're fast, but to see whether we canactually get all the way through the benchmark(which might take a day to run) without havinga functional error or a crash.- Dan

-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.eduPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/